Talk:ISO 639-3
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[edit] Collective languages
The ISO 639-2 code "art" for artificial languages is also a collective code, isn't it? HTH --surueña 10:40, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, it is. ISO 639-2 actually has far more than eleven collective codes. For example, roa refers to Romance language (other). — Gareth Hughes 12:59, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Adoption
would like to write about ISO 639 three letter adoption.
- non-conforming
- http://airberlin.com/ uses ces->cze, hun->ung, nld->net ; while deu eng spa fra ita pol por are ISO conform
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 11:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Lots of people use nonconforming codes. Even when they try to adopt ISO codes, they make up codes like pob[1] for Brazilian Portuguese, which is just a dialect. (Of course, so are the variants of Serbocroatian that get their own language codes for purely political reasons.) Many, many people don't even know the difference between a language and a country and use country codes. The horror. And don't even try to evangelize them, it's useless.--87.162.30.226 06:58, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mapping ISO 639-1 to ISO 639-3
This linux one-liner generates the mapping:
(echo "iso_639_map_1_3 = {"; wget -O - http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/iso-639-3_Latin1_20070516.tab | cut -f 1,4 | sed -e "1,1d" | grep "......" | awk "{print \" '\" \$2 \"' : '\" \$1 \"',\"}" | sort; echo "}") > iso_639_map_1_3.py
[edit] Procedure for making changes to the ISO 639-3 standard
It would be helpful to have a paragraph discussing the fact that the standard is not static, but dynamic, and how one might go about proposing changes to it (through the ISO 639-3 registration authority).
- Albert Bickford 206.169.90.53 (talk) 23:24, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
